An Interactive, Multimedia Conference @
Cornell University, April 30th - May1st, 2010

The speed of adaptation to new communication and network possibilities have left the majority of culture critics and literary scholars struggling to find meaningful technical and theoretical language to engage the relation of new media to print culture. The goal of this conference is to rethink transnational Hispanic literary theory and practice, taking into account the evolving literary forms of our time. We will examine the contributions to text and theory suggested by new, hybrid storyspaces, including the effects on narrative of new televisual and cybernetic media spaces (reality television, YouTube, blogs, Google, yahoo jukebox), new genres (video clip novels, zapping fiction, docufiction), and new pedagogies (how media is shaping our critical universe).

"Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention and a series of regional salons held throughout the year, we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere.